Chokher Bali, A passion play set in the early 1900s is the story of a beautiful, educated woman, Binodini, struggling to free herself from the oppression of widowhood. Widowed within a year of marriage, she movers into Mahendra's house, the man who was once offered her hand in marriage and refused. There she meets Mahendra's wife Ashalata and friend Behari, who is in and out of the house. Among these develops a forbidden attraction, a mesmerizing web of destiny and desire.